How to Build Social Capital (In A Remote First World) Everyone in recruitment agrees that building your network is one of the key components of sustainable success in this business. There is no doubt that in-person connection helped deepen relationships with clients, colleagues and candidates alike. So what does it mean now that we are mainly doing our work in a remote first way? Are our networks going to be smaller, less effective? And are there any ways in which networking can be done more eff...
Apr 01, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 159
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today Next up is Siadhal Magos, CEO of Metaview - When did you realise there was an opportunity to create a new category in recruitment technology? - How has your background in Product helped and hindered you as a CEO? - What have been the biggest differences between senior exec vs CEO? - What are the things you can't / won't let go? - If you could improve your skills as a CE...
Mar 30, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 158
DDR - or Data Driven Recruitment, what is this, why do we need it and how do we get there? I don't think any one topic has achieved wide spread consensus as quickly as being 'data driven'. What does this really mean and why is it better than the other thing? How are recruiting teams which operate in a data driven way, different from those that do not? You will learn - Difference between Data Driven / not Data Driven (pst - it's a sliding scale) - Data maturity model - how to analyse the state of...
Mar 25, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 157
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today Next up is Ammon Bartram, CEO of Triplebyte - When did you know Triplebyte was going to happen? - What were the good things about Y Combinator? - In what ways do you think Y Comb might be damaging? - Engineering led startups - strengths, weaknesses - What did you learn from Justin? - What product innovations can we expect from Triplebyte in 2022? - How much will the cha...
Mar 23, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 156
We all know job ads are under performing - with crashing applicant rates as talent shortage persists throughout 2022. It's timely we have expert opinion from recruitment marketers, recruitment ad professionals and algorithmic job posting vendors to help us get better value from our posts We are going to find out: - What day of the week is best for applicant rate - What time of the day is best for applicant rate - What week of the month is best for applicant rate - How long should your job title ...
Mar 18, 2022•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 154
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today Next up is Ryan McCabe, CEO of Odro - How did this happen Ryan - When did you know Odro was happening - What lessons did you bring from mechanical engineering to recruiting then recruiting to CEO-ing - If you do it again, what would you do exactly the same way? - What would you do differently? - From idea to business, what do most first time entrepreneurs miss? - Recrui...
Mar 16, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 153
How has Candidate Experience changed from 2021 to 2022? We all know that the market has rebalanced in favour of the job seeker in the past 12 months, elevating expectations on compensation and work flexibility - and likely reducing job seeker tolerance for poor and inefficient recruitment processes. What are candidates saying to us today and how are we to adapt? We are going to find out: - CX minimum hygiene standards in 2022 - Universal standard or Customised CX based on candidate source? - How...
Mar 11, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 152
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today Next up is Troy Sultan, CEO of Guide - What is the difference between being C-level and Senior Exec? - Why does it seem rare for talent pro's to become successful HR tech entrepreneurs - Decisions as CEO: toughest, best and the one you would like to take back! - Were you always going to do startup? - What have you learned about yourself, after bec...
Mar 09, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 151
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today Next up is Pedro Torrecillas, CEO of Circular - What is the original story of Circular? - What are the CEO things that you don't do well? - How do you hire your leadership team? - Your background in product - how is this a strength and weakness for a CEO? - How are the buyer markets different, in different countries? - What would you do differently if you could start th...
Mar 09, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 150
We all love the word 'strategic'. We probably all think we are strategic. But it means something different from at the customer perspective, if you're considered a strategic partner or asset. It means that they factor in your service and availability when they are designing their own strategies. - What is being a 'strategic partner'? - Is this even possible to achieve for an agency supplier? - What needs to happen, for this to happen? - How to build and deepen trust relationships - How to add va...
Mar 04, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 149
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today Next up is Nico Blier-Silvestri, CEO of Platypus - What are the benefits of being a recruiter before becoming CEO of a rectech business? - What are the handicaps? - What blind spots did you have when become a first time founder / CEO? - When did you know Platypus was going to happen? - Can you remember the first big decision you made? - What lessons would you give to yo...
Mar 02, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 148
There is status gap between departments in business. Finance is the treasury. Sales bring the money. Product / Engineering might make the things we sell. Legal creates the contracts we are all bound by. Where does TA / HR sit in this order? Why do recruiters / TA consistently seem to be a department that has fight extra hard to be heard? Perhaps, we lack 'institutional confidence' - What is 'institutional confidence' - How do we know this is a problem - What do we need to do on departmental leve...
Feb 26, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 147
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today Next up is Jonathan Romley, CEO of Lundi - Why are you always the boss of your businesses? - What are the CEO things that you don't do well? - How do you hire your leadership team? - What is the original story of Lundi? - What is does the final outcome for Lundi look like? - What exciting things can the market expect from Lundi in 2022? - If you were to teleport back in...
Feb 23, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 146
How long has the argument been that TA should be in a separate department from HR, either a stand alone reporting into the CEO or part of Marketing or part of Operations - anything but HR! Where is the state of this argument and does it still stand? What might the benefits be of moving closer to HR rather than away? - Isn't TA really about marketing these days? - What has been the influence of covid 19 onto this conversation? - Should it even matter which reporting line? - Why TA benefits from b...
Feb 18, 2022•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 145
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today Next up is Pedro Oliveira, CEO of Talent Protocol - What is the difference between being CEO of a web2 vs a web3 organisation? - What have you learned in your career as a leader of tech business? - What assumptions have you had to let go, which ones are you now gambling to be true? - Decisions as CEO: toughest, best and the one you would like to t...
Feb 16, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 144
How To Know A Good Recruiter? Everybody is hiring for recruiters these days and - in moments of candidate shortage for recruiters - we may be tempted to say to anybody with a pulse! However, how can we tell a good recruiter apart from the others? Is there a way to do it before we actually get to see them in action? - Red flags on candidates - Key assessment criteria - How important is prior experience (really) - How important are the recruiting stages? - How important is domain knowledge? - Juni...
Feb 11, 2022•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 143
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the businesses changing the way we work today Next up is Tony Jamous, CEO of Oyster - What's the Oyster original story? - When did you realise it would be a billion dollar opportunity? - How much bigger did Covid / Shift to remote make the market, make the business? - What's the difference in leading a Unicorn business, going for all the marbles vs just another great business? - What is the hardest part of the job ...
Feb 04, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 142
Recruiter Enablement - How to set up an effective Recaps function We heard a lot of recruitment operations or 'RecOps' in recent years but it is still an uncommon specialist function in TA teams. What is RecOps, why is not just plain old recruiting and why do some people think it is the key to hyper scaling? - Definitions - what is recruitment operations? - What are the key tasks and objectives involved in RecOPs? - How do we know Recaps is performing well? - What kind of KPI's do RecOps most ca...
Jan 28, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 141
Setting Salaries for Remotely Distributed Teams As candidate shortage continues to bite in 2022, employers will increasingly look to shift jobs to location agnostic setting. However as one problem may be solved others rise up to take their place - how do we handle the compensation for our newly remote workforce? This is topic of Brainfood Live On Air - Ep140 - Shifting to remote....what is the framework to use? - What are the common objections and challenges when setting compensation for remote?...
Jan 21, 2022•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 140
Selling Talent Acquisition Transformation to the Business As recruitment leaders we are brought on board to make step change improvements in how talent acquisition is conducted at our employers. Yet translating the objectives into actual change on the ground is one of the recurring challenges for TA today. Why is it so difficult? Why did they even hire you if they don't listen to your ideas? This is the topic for Brainfood Live On Air - Ep139 - Hard hitting chat and advice on how to sell change ...
Jan 14, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 139
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today. Next up are Dan Kirkland & Dean Sadler, Co-founders of Tribepad - What is the difference between being C-level vs Senior Exec? - How did a career in engineering prepare you for being a founder of a recruitment tech business? - Were you always going to be doing startup? - What areas of being a CEO do you feel you need support? - What do you lo...
Jan 12, 2022•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 138
What is going to happen in Recruiting for 2022? Its going to be another crazy year in our game, as candidate shortages continue to drive up demand for recruiters, organisations contort and reshape to better access different types of worker and new technologies bring big ramifications for how we do our work. Questions to consider How does employer branding look like at a time when workers have the upper hand? What is the upper limit to the increase in comp & ben? When do organisations begin t...
Jan 07, 2022•1 hr 30 min•Ep. 137
RECRUITMENT REVIEW OF THE YEAR 2021 We're finally here folks - the last Brainfood Live of the year! I know that it's only the 17th December but it's Christmas Eve next Friday and I suspect everybody will either by with friends and family for the holidays, or zoning out on Netflix and whiskey on their own, so this is the day we're going to close the year on. As such, lets talk about this year - what was the biggest thing to happen in recruiting in 2021 and why? How about - The Great Resignation -...
Dec 17, 2021•2 hr 18 min•Ep. 136
EMPLOYER BRANDING FOR CONTROVERSIAL BRANDS One of the most interesting challenges in employer branding and talent attraction is to build and execute strategy for a company whose brand which might usually draw prejudgement and high emotion. How do you go about your work as a recruiter or talent attraction strategist in this circumstance? - How to refute the claims and challenge the brand perception - How to tell a different story - How to respond to the charges, public and private - Using the per...
Dec 03, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 135
SWITCHING INDUSTRIES: A GUIDE FOR RECRUITERS The agility of recruiters is one of the main reasons why we are resilient during times of change. Switching industry focus is one of those skills which makes most sense in the present moment as industries rise and fall with the shift to remote, the change in work habits, the change in people's priorities. Is there a technique or system for doing this? What is the best way to switch an industry? Can we develop a framework? - What industries are rising,...
Nov 26, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 134
CANDIDATE JOURNEYS: THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY Finding candidates is one problem, making sure that they stick with you throughout the recruiting process is another! The white hot market of 2021 has shown us that our current neglect of candidate experience is no long tenable and is manifestly hampering our ability to recruit for our businesses. - How do we rethink the candidate journey? - What are the experience design principles we have to implement to elevate the recruiting experience? - ...
Nov 19, 2021•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 133
WHAT DO RECRUITERS WANT? It's a question whose time has come, as employers everywhere attempt to staff up their recruiting teams in order to be competitive in this candidate short post pandemic economy. I've been dealing with this my own way of late - launching the Brainfood Jobs Job Board to help employers and now the What Do Recruiters Want survey, which hundreds of you have contributed to already. In this show, we want to answer the question from people who actively recruit recruiters and hea...
Nov 12, 2021•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 132
EMPLOYEE GENERATED CONTENT: A CASE STUDY FROM IBM There is no better form of content than EGC - Employee Generated Content. Today's job seeker does not want to see slick corporate videos, over produced marketing lit or sermon delivered by the CEO. What they want is to see people who are doing the jobs they are doing telling them how it is to work at the employer. But knowing is not the same as doing! How do we get from the idea to the execution? Today's special will look at one of the best exemp...
Nov 05, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 131
Founders Focus is the show where we get up close and personal with the leaders of the recruitment technology businesses changing the way we work today. Next up are Rick Mare & Nicole Clarke, Co-founders of Shazamme. - What is the difference between being C-level vs Senior Exec? - How did a career in recruitment prepare you for being a founder of a recruitment tech business? - Were you always going to be doing startup? - What areas of being a CEO do you feel you need support? - What do you lo...
Nov 03, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 130
FUTURE FIT TALENT ACQUISITION LEADERS Talent Acquisition is a function no stranger to change, but perhaps there has never been a moment quite like this that is confronting our industry; radical decentralisation of organisation structure, diversification of employee contracts, shift from one to maybe multi-modal ways of operating, the blurring the divide between 'company' and 'market', the rise of social imperatives as a business priority and the loosening of organisational structure to facilitat...
Oct 29, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 129
